Following the Arrows of Longing
What happens if you live your story to the end?
To explore this question, I’m currently on a pilgrimage to find the binding element:
Something that restores a sense of real connection on a personal, social and spiritual level.
I suspect this element to be myth: the stories we live from, through, and towards.
To test this suspicion, the inquiry into the essence of story is at the heart of the pilgrimage.
It is therefore, in the old sense of the Greek word “Theoria,” a sacred journey to put a theory to the test, not by standing apart from it, but by embodying it and fully trusting that the truth will be revealed when one is changed.
From this inquiry, a practice I call Fateweaving has begun to emerge. It is an attempt to help people regain a sense of existential agency by cultivating an intimate relationship with story.
In practise this means I am led to people and places that are interested to help other people find their calling through myth and embodied ways of learning.
But a true adventure is only real when others join the ride.
Along the way, I will share my stories in the blog below and invite others to join in by telling and living out theirs.
A pilgrimage on
the path of story
Morocco -Between Adventure and Prophecy
Join me on a climbing trip with my father to the land of the setting sun. Climbing from prophecy to integration, we summited the Prophet Peak and made a first ascent through the Centre of the Mandala.
Feytopia -In Search of Allies and Dragons
Delve with me into a world of castles, caves, mischief and tangly tales.
After the Departure I began the Pilgrimage with the search for allies, that ultimately led to an encounter with a dragon…
The Departure -Between Hearing and Heeding the Call
Adalbert Pilch: Parizival crosses the valley
The following is an illustration of why I decided to leave my old way of life behind in order to go on a pilgrimage on the path of myth. With myth, I mean the stories that connect us by pointing us toward deep patterns within reality and therefore allowing us to gain orientation in life.
It is an invitation to reflect upon your life by giving you insight into mine.
We will move from exploring about what makes hearing a calling difficult, to discuss what might us help to hear a call and lastly to reflect on how to interpret one’s calling in order to differentiate between inspiration and inflation.
The Castle -A Glimpse into Wholeness
Hans Rudolf -The castle of the grail.
The story of the garden wound it’s way into a castle. There I bet my free will in a game of black jack tarot only to win the love of Athena.
Among other things I got to embody Parzival for a day and experience the first edition of the Eleusinian Mysteries for over 2000 years. Sounds weird? -It was.
The Garden, a Fertile Ground for the Seed of Fateweaving
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights.
A story of my experiences in the community “the Garden” that was an initiating flame for the idea of fateweaving.
Enter with me into a liminal space in which the boarders between myth, magic and everyday life collaps